Giving young children peanut products cuts allergy risk, study finds

New study examines peanut allergies in young kids

Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at Mass General for Children, explains what a new study has revealed and how parents may want to introduce allergens to infants.

Study shows promise in preventing peanut allergies

CHICAGO — Children exposed to peanut products from infancy are significantly less likely to develop peanut allergies later in childhood, a study from the National Institutes of Health indicates. Researchers followed 500 children from infancy to age 12 and found that kids who started on peanuts in infancy and who continued to eat them had a 71 percent reduced risk of peanut allergy in adolescence. "Early introduction of allergens, in theory, is s…

Giving peanuts early in life can reduce peanut allergies allergies

Introducing peanuts to children as early as infancy has been shown to reduce peanut allergies allergies, according to a report on Fox 4 KDFW: “Feeding peanut butter to babies — starting during infancy and continuing until age 5 — has been shown effective in reducing allergies into adolescence, according to a new study by King’s College London. “The LEAP-Trio study, published on Tuesday in NEJM Evidence, showed that children who consumed peanuts …

Giving babies peanuts could avert allergies later on, study finds

A new study highlights the long-term benefits of early peanut consumption in preventing allergies.

Early peanut consumption slashes allergy risk by 71%, landmark study finds

A recent study published in NEJM Evidence found that feeding children peanut products regularly from infancy to age five reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, providing long-term prevention through early allergen consumption

Introducing peanuts early reduces kids’ allergy risk: new study

"This safe, simple strategy could prevent tens of thousands of cases of peanut allergy among the 3.6 million children born in the United States each year," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.